Volkswagen could be about to revolutionise the automotive industry's next big thing If, like me, you are an avid consumer of The Week magazine, you will be familiar with its self-explanatory section…

Porsche is pushing the rulebook with its new 911 RSR, following Ford's lead. Andrew Frankel asks whether it's time to step in Earlier this year I wrote about the tears of…

Andrew Frankel asks whether evolution or revolution is best when it comes to road cars Being staunchly traditional and instinctively cynical, I tend to approach each new technological development with what…

Dieselgate's latest casualty looks set to be Volkswagen's hugely successful World Rally Championship project Volkswagen will quit the World Rally Championship (WRC) at the end of this season, ending four…

Andrew Frankel remembers Rob Walker, full-time gentleman Pondering the possible contents of this column yesterday my mind turned to Jo Siffert, who lost his life at Brands Hatch on October 24,…

Andrew Frankel wonders whether it is championships that make a champion or whether it's the likes of Stirling Moss fighting for Hawthorn's second place in the 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix…

The rumoured Apple takeover of McLaren – and why Andrew Frankel hopes it doesn't happen. Is Apple about to take over McLaren? And, if so, what are the ramifications for its…

I thought it was over, that the upward spiral in classic car prices in general and Porsches in particular had peaked and even eased off a little. But recently I’ve…

I was five when Gary Gabelich broke the Land Speed Record in October 1970 and, I guess for that very reason, it was a very big deal. I don’t think…

My life with the few old and unimportant cars I own is a perpetual quest to improve them. Oddly but in the overwhelming majority of cases this involves returning them…

So the introduction of the ‘halo’ driver protection system now being considered as mandatory equipment on Formula 1 cars has been delayed until 2018. These devices anchor at three points…

Just over a quarter of a century ago a Japanese company with no record in the field produced a supercar that changed its world. Honda called it the New Sports…